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The Kleene-Post and Post’s Theorem in the Calculus of Inductive Constructions

Authors Yannick Forster , Dominik Kirst , Niklas Mück

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Yannick Forster
  • Inria, Nantes Université, LS2N, Nantes, France
Dominik Kirst
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
  • Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany
Niklas Mück
  • Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • MPI-SWS, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany

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  • Forster, Yannick: received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101024493.
  • Kirst, Dominik: is supported by a Minerva Fellowship of the Minerva Stiftung Gesellschaft für die Forschung mbH.

Acknowledgements

We want to thank Felix Jahn, Gert Smolka, Dominique Larchey-Wendling, and the participants of the TYPES '22 conference for many fruitful discussions about Turing reducibility, Ian Shillito and the anonymous reviewers of this paper for helpful feedback, as well as Martin Baillon, Yann Leray, Assia Mahboubi, Pierre-Marie Pédrot, and Matthieu Piquerez for discussions about notions of continuity. The central inspiration to start working on Turing reducibility in type theory is due to Andrej Bauer’s talk at the Wisconsin logic seminar in February 2021. Furthermore, the first two authors want to thank Benjamin Kaminski, his research group, and the royals of the castle for hosting their nostalgic stay in Saarbrücken to finish writing this paper.

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Yannick Forster, Dominik Kirst, and Niklas Mück. The Kleene-Post and Post’s Theorem in the Calculus of Inductive Constructions. In 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 288, pp. 29:1-29:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.29

Abstract

The Kleene-Post theorem and Post’s theorem are two central and historically important results in the development of oracle computability theory, clarifying the structure of Turing reducibility degrees. They state, respectively, that there are incomparable Turing degrees and that the arithmetical hierarchy is connected to the relativised form of the halting problem defined via Turing jumps.
We study these two results in the calculus of inductive constructions (CIC), the constructive type theory underlying the Coq proof assistant. CIC constitutes an ideal foundation for the formalisation of computability theory for two reasons: First, like in other constructive foundations, computable functions can be treated via axioms as a purely synthetic notion rather than being defined in terms of a concrete analytic model of computation such as Turing machines. Furthermore and uniquely, CIC allows consistently assuming classical logic via the law of excluded middle or weaker variants on top of axioms for synthetic computability, enabling both fully classical developments and taking the perspective of constructive reverse mathematics on computability theory.
In the present paper, we give a fully constructive construction of two Turing-incomparable degrees à la Kleene-Post and observe that the classical content of Post’s theorem seems to be related to the arithmetical hierarchy of the law of excluded middle due to Akama et. al. Technically, we base our investigation on a previously studied notion of synthetic oracle computability and contribute the first consistency proof of a suitable enumeration axiom. All results discussed in the paper are mechanised and contributed to the Coq library of synthetic computability.

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  • Theory of computation → Constructive mathematics
  • Theory of computation → Type theory
Keywords
  • Constructive mathematics
  • Computability theory
  • Logical foundations
  • Constructive type theory
  • Interactive theorem proving
  • Coq proof assistant

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